The stability of the Space Shuttle on-orbit flight control system is determined for a class of payloads for which the payload is tilted out of the orbiter bay and the bending can be modeled as localized at a pivot. Examples are the Inertial Upper Stage or the Centaur with attached spacecraft during deployment. The many inertial, geometric, and jet option parameters are reduced to a smaller set which allows the determination of stability or instability as a function of bending frequency and the other elements of the set. The resulting stability charts, which are presented, can be used by payload designers and misssion planners to predict possible instability without elaborate analysis or simulation.


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    Title :

    Stability of the Shuttle on-orbit flight control system for a class of flexible payloads


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Guidance and Control Conference ; 1983 ; Gatlinburg, TN


    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English